Ran Libeskind-Hadas is the R. Michael Shanahan Professor of Computer Science at Harvey Mudd College, USA, working in the areas of algorithms and computational biology. He is a recipient of both the Iris and Howard Critchell Professorship and the Joseph B. Platt Professorship for teaching, as well as the Distinguished Alumni Educator Award from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Department of Computer Science.
Preface
Meet python
Part I. Python versus Pathogens: 1. Computing GC content
2. Pathogenicity islands
3. Open reading frames and genes
4. Finding genes (at last!)
Part II. Sequence Alignment and Sex Determination: 5. Recursion
6. The use-it-or-lose-it principle
7. Dictionaries, memoization, and speed
8. Sequence alignments and the evolution of sex chromosomes
Part III. Phylogenetic Reconstruction and the Origin of Modern Humans: 9. Representing and working with trees
10. Drawing trees
11. The UPGMA algorithm
Part IV. Additional Topics: 12. RNA secondary structure prediction
13. Gene regulatory networks and the maximum likelihood method
14. Birds, bees, and genetic algorithms
Where to go from here
Index.
